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help2read volunteers working in 74 Cape Town schools are now helping more than 913 learners every week.....read more
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help2read
1st Floor
66 Main Rd
Claremont
7708
Cape Town
South Africa
tel +27 (0) 21 671 0824
fax +27 (0) 21 671 0825
info@help2read.org
Association incorporated under Section 21
Registration number: 2005/044040/08
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help2read makes reading fun!
We help children love books!
How?
By taking reading out of the classroom, combining it
with
games, and giving children choice.
By giving children the individual care and attention we all need
to flourish, and often take for granted…not everyone has time for bedtime stories,
not everyone can read. If you can, help2read!
We currently help disadvantaged children throughout the Cape Peninsula, and we are
looking to expand well beyond this in the future.
Help us by volunteering, making donations, or giving us your old children's books
The children we help:
We help children aged 5-12 who find reading difficult
Those of us that love to read have enjoyed privileges most of us have taken for
granted:
- Parents who read bedtime stories,
- Books and text in English around the house,
- At the very least, an adult in the family able to read and write English.
Many South African children have parents who can’t read or write in their own language,
let alone English, so how can they read to their children? Yet, without those stories and
one-on-one attention children fall behind their peers, losing confidence and self esteem.
With the loss of confidence comes the loss of pleasure: kids who don’t feel confident
about their reading simply don’t like reading, or books.
Why would they?
For most of those children, reading has only ever been torture
and humiliation. Those that don’t read outside of school have only ever had the
school’s books imposed on them, and those books may not interest them. They’ve never
had the opportunity to choose what interests them, and to explore that. help2read is changing it here in South
Africa!
How we do it:
We turn reading into play
We recruit and train volunteers from the local community to help children read. Sessions are entirely child led,
so children can only enjoy themselves. Very quickly, children look forward to reading instead of dreading it!
help2read’s volunteers and children sit in the library or a quiet place outside the classroom, and read or
play together one-on-one on a weekly basis, for between 1-4 terms. On the Intensive help2read programme,
volunteers help the same child every day for at least 4 weeks, so children get
intensive one-on-one care and support.
We provide volunteers with a box full of books, from African Tales to Fairy
tales, sticker books to pop-up books, poetry, puzzles, jokes, and games. Children quickly find a book
they love and learn to love reading!
Who are our volunteers?
They could be you, your friends and family, or your employees!
If you or your staff can read and write English and have at least
an hour to spare each week, then be part of one of help2read’s
programs and improve at least three children’s lives forever! Enhance their
life, their future children’s lives, and your life, with the legacy of literacy!
help2read provide free weekly training sessions
for volunteers, as well as free on-site corporate training for
companies that allow their staff to volunteer during work-hours,
or during their lunch breaks.
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